What happened in 1994

“I'll Make Love To You”

Boyz II Men · 14 weeks at #1 in 1994

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1. Jan 1HeroMariah Carey3 wks
2. Jan 22All For LoveBryan Adams/Rod Stewart/Sting3 wks
3. Feb 12The Power Of LoveCeline Dion4 wks
4. Mar 12The SignAce Of Base6 wks
5. Apr 9Bump N' GrindR. Kelly4 wks
6. May 21I SwearAll-4-One11 wks
7. Aug 6Stay (I Missed You) (From "Reality Bites")Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories3 wks
8. Aug 27I'll Make Love To YouBoyz II Men14 wks
9. Dec 3On Bended KneeBoyz II Men3 wks
10. Dec 17Here Comes The Hotstepper (From "Ready To Wear")Ini Kamoze2 wks

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 1994; weeks count only those in 1994.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 1The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.
2. Jan 6Two-time American Olympic figure-skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan was hit on the leg with a police baton by an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.
3. Jan 17The 6.7 Mw Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
4. Feb 7Having retired four months earlier, American basketball player Michael Jordan signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox to play baseball.
5. Feb 21Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.
6. Feb 22Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
7. May 1Three-time Formula One champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix.
8. May 10American serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed between 1972 and 1978.
9. Jun 17Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
10. Jul 5Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.
11. Aug 31Russia completes removing its troops from Estonia.
12. Aug 31Argentina abolishes conscription after months of social backlash over the murder of a conscript.
13. Oct 1Palau enters a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
14. Dec 14Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Bill Clinton

• UK Prime Minister

  John Major

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Jean Chrétien

• President of France

  François Mitterrand

• German Chancellor

  Helmut Kohl

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Morihiro Hosokawa → Tsutomu Hata → Tomiichi Murayama

• President of Russia

  Boris Yeltsin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 1994, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Derrick HenryAmerican football player · Jan 4
• Jameis WinstonAmerican football player · Jan 6
• Lucy BoyntonAmerican-English actress · Jan 17
• Julia GarnerAmerican actress · Feb 1
• Jessica PegulaAmerican tennis player · Feb 24
• Tyreek HillAmerican football player · Mar 1
• Christina GrimmieAmerican singer-songwriter (died 2016) · Mar 12
• Ansel ElgortAmerican actor and DJ · Mar 14
• Saoirse RonanAmerican-born Irish actress · Apr 12
• Liv MorganAmerican professional wrestler · Jun 8

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.